The Columbiana County Mental Health and Recovery Services Board just lately acquired a former physician’s workplace situated on state Route 14 in Unity Township that will likely be remodeled right into a facility to handle the impacts on psychological well being and assist the neighborhood heal. The middle, which is at present below renovations will provide residents conventional counseling, help teams and 12-Step conferences, and non-traditional programming, reminiscent of trauma-focused yoga courses, inventive arts, and animal remedy. (Photo by Stephanie Elverd)
A sensible man as soon as stated that “on the opposite facet of a storm is the power that comes from having navigated via it.”
For many in and round East Palestine, that storm rolled in with a thundering conflict when a possible overheated wheel bearing led to 38 automobiles of a Norfolk Southern freight prepare barreling off observe.
It’s been one yr for the reason that flames that adopted the derailment burned shiny towards the black backdrop of a frigid February evening. The fires have been lengthy put out, the wreckage cleared and the bottom beneath the jumbled automobiles remediated and restored, however for some the proverbial storm clouds nonetheless linger.
Marcy Patton, the chief director of Columbiana County Mental Health and Recovery Board, acknowledges these clouds however she additionally believes in silver linings.
“The derailment was a horrible, traumatic factor,” Patton stated. “But good issues have are available its wake and we actually wish to give attention to the constructive issues which have occurred after it. Yes, this dangerous factor occurred. But what can we do to assist individuals heal and what good can come from it and has come from it.”